interventionist
Britishadjective
noun
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He talks with pride about leading an "active and interventionist" government and points to the new trade deal with six Gulf economies the government has signed.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
Allizandra Herberhold, a nihilistic violent extremism consultant and exit interventionist who works with the nonprofit Parents for Peace, told me extreme content is used as a form of currency in these communities.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
His actions Wednesday match previous interventionist moves he has made, such as directing the federal government to buy nearly 10% of chipmaker Intel and invest in rare metals companies like MP Materials, Lithium Trilogy Metals.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
Though not without pushback from editors at home, who were more sympathetic to the quasi-isolationist, less interventionist views of their readership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
It is only as compared to Adam Smith, or to English classical and the Continental "liberal" schools of economics of the nineteenth century, that it was interventionist.
From A Letter to Dion by Jacob Viner
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